Thursday, September 16, 2004

Kofi Annan

says the Iraq war was illegal, because of the lack of a 2nd resolution (in a BBC interview, also reported by France Inter, 16 Sep).

Update (17 Sep) : the whole interview is to be broadcast Sunday on the
BBC World Service. Of course, the 'it is illegal' had to be dragged out
of Annan by the interviewer, but predictably that phrase has been seized
upon - front page of Le Monde's website yesterday. On France
Inter's opinion piece Geopolitique this morning, speculation by
Bernard Guetta about the timing : since the US policy in Iraq is a failure,
Guetta claims, Annan is seeking to emphasize the UN's distance from it.